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Sorted ? Mystery Cache

Hidden : 6/11/2018
Difficulty:
3.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


The puzzle


If I wrote out the headline coordinates in words I’d get:

North fifty two degrees twelve point four two six minutes East zero degrees seven point one three zero minutes

There are 233,280,000,000,000 possible coordinates for a geocache, and when sorted into alphabetical order the location above comes 30,829,388,370,480th in the list.

The coordinates of the geocache are 29,870,456,370,683rd in the list.


Pedantry


The calculations above assume that there’s neither North or South ninety degrees, nor any East or West one hundred and eighty degrees. There is however, both North and South zero degrees zero point zero zero zero minutes, and similar duplication along the meridian.

Sorting is done without regard to case, numbers are written without hyphens, and three digits are always given after the point.




Related caches


chris2286266 set up a similar cache, GC87ZA2,in Vienna, Austria.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Gur trbpurpxre unf rkcyvpvg svaqvat uvagf.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)